Dhūmarakkha untranslated

Dhūmarakkha. A mountain in Ceylon, not far from Kacchakatittha, on the right bank of the Mahā Vālukanadī. There Paṇḍukābhaya defeated his uncles and occupied their fortified camp for two years. The mountain was the abode of Yakkhas, and it was here that Paṇḍukābhaya captured the Yakkhinī Cetiyā, near the pond Tumbariyaṅgaṇa in the vicinity of the mountain (Mhv.x.46, 53, 58ff). King Mahā Nāma built a vihāra there (Cv.xxxvii.213).

According to the Mahā Vaṁsaṭīkā (p.289), the mountain was also called Udumbarapabbata (or Udumbaragiri). There seems (See PLC., s.v. Udumbaragiri) to have lived at Udumbaragiri a fraternity of forest-dwelling monks who produced from among their number several scholars of great repute and monks of great piety – e.g., Kassapa and Medhaṅkara.

The mountain is identified (Ep.Zey.ii.194ff) with the present “Gunners’ Quoin” on the right bank of the Mahā Valigaṅgā.